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S8 Ep739: PREVIEW FOR TOMORROW: Peter Huessy discusses the lack of nuclear education among young national security officials,. He warns that Russia and China now deploy battlefield nuclear weapons to win conflicts, moving far beyond Cold War deterrence strategies t

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW FOR TOMORROW: Peter Huessy discusses the lack of nuclear education among young national security officials,. He warns that Russia and China now deploy battlefield nuclear weapons to win conflicts, moving far beyond Cold War deterrence strategies today. (1)
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with Indeed. This is John Batchelor, conversation with Peter Husey, my guide on nuclear weapons,

0:42.2

as understood by the U.S. government and the U.S. military.

0:45.8

The question is, do people, young people especially, Gen X and millennials,

0:51.6

now moving into positions of authority and the defense and security part of the U.S.

0:58.0

government, do they understand the extreme risk of a nuclear weapon to human beings?

1:05.2

And that using it on a battlefield does not answer the question, is this a weapon of war, a weapon of terror,

1:13.2

the end of the story, a cruelty beyond understanding, what he is the education value for nuclear

1:21.4

weapons for the younger people who command the future? Peter answers, and especially with regard Russia and China, is Peter.

1:30.8

More tonight.

1:31.5

I can answer that quite simply, is that those military and civilian folks deeply amassed in the

1:38.6

nuclear business understand how serious the use of a nuclear weapon would be.

1:44.5

However, very few other people do.

1:47.9

And particularly if you're not in the nuclear or military business

1:50.6

and in the national security business,

1:52.4

the understanding is terrible.

1:54.6

And this I hear from people that I admire and work with

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